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Liz Woodhouse Liz Woodhouse, as seen by Richard Ball, Motor Pool, U. S. Embassy, Moscow Russia, late 1991/early 1992. (Hair isn't buzzed anymore. Glasses are the same. Still use the coat in winter - don't sleep under it very often anymore, though.)

Known on the newsgroups as just "Liz."

(Actually, better known as Liz, the Goddess of Paradox) (I didn't write that part... Of course, I didn't delete it either... <g>)


Chapter 2: How Paradox Chose Liz The First Time


Chapter 3: How Paradox Chose Liz The Second Time

[Part left out of Chapter 2, but relevant: In late March/early April 1992, I bought two kittens.]

In late November 1994, I brought those two cats to America. A few months later, I moved into an apartment in a city 30 minutes north of where I wanted to live and in a complex I wouldn't have chosen except it was the only place I could find that would let me keep the two cats (and thus ends their relevance to Paradox).

After a good 6 months off (wasting most of the money I'd made in Moscow and not getting nearly enough done on my novel), I decided I'd better get a job. So I went out and applied for a bunch of administrative assistant type jobs (thinking the organizational skills learned in Moscow would be suited for this). It so happened that one of the places (not my first choice) was using Paradox for various project accounting purposes. They were also a software localization company. My Paradox experience and my two foreign languages made me suited for this, and they offered me the job, which I accepted.

After a few months, business started to pick up, and they needed more people to work in the software localization department. My boss and the head of that department both felt like I had the required skills, and so I transferred over to software localization and began a long relationship with Lotus Education classes and Lotus Notes in particular.

Then in the summer of 1996 (less than a year after I was hired), my boss commissioned me to design a timesheet database in Paradox to help us keep better track of employee hours. In the process of doing this, I decided I needed to learn ObjectPAL, so I started with the tutorial in chapter 2 of the Guide to ObjectPAL (version 7-16 book, I think), and then proceeded to read almost every page of that book.

While designing this timesheet database, I ran into a problem: I needed to have a drop-down list with only the job numbers for the selected client, but I couldn't find a way to filter the dataSource table. So, first I contacted a consultant who did some work for the project accounting department, and he told me I needed to run a query to get the job numbers (didn't go into much detail). I couldn't believe it was that difficult, so I searched the internet and discovered the newsgroups! I asked my question there, and Brian Bushay gave me the answer - query out the job numbers for the selected client, and use the answer table for the list's dataSource. Well, I still didn't believe it had to be that difficult (sorry, Brian), but since I couldn't find any other way of doing it, that's the method I went with. (For you newbies, yes, this is the way to do it, though it can also be done via a tcursor and scan - check out Kasey Chang's article on this.)

For the next two and a half years (or so), I participated more and more on the newsgroups (until I was addicted and reading every post), and I continued to design databases in Paradox for this software localization company. And then, in December of 1998, I was laid off...

Chapter 4: How Paradox Chose Liz The Third Time



Check out these articles written by Liz :
BDE Configuration Tips
Beyond Help: Breakpoints and the Debugger
Building Tables: Part 1: Files and Fields
Building Tables: Part 2: Validity Checks and Table Lookup
Building Tables: Part 3: Table Language, Table Level and Passwords
Building Tables: Part 4: Primary and Secondary Indices
Data Integrity Introduction
Do It Yourself Referential Integrity
Referential Integrity Introduction
Using ODBC Data Sources
Using the Microsoft TreeView Control in Paradox


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